Saturday, 20 June 2015

Sun Dragon is a Winner!

Well it looks like I sent my invite to vote for Sun Dragon out a bit too late as the winners for the SpaSpa Book Awards 2014 have been announced. That will teach me not to put things off! The good news is that Sun Dragon has won the science-fiction category which is great news. I'm very pleased with that result, especially as I was up against some excellent competition.

I was also pleased to see that some of my favourite indie authors placed amongst the winners. You can see the winning books on the awards page here:

2012: NASA's Curiosity Rover lands on Mars to search for signs of whether microbial life existed on the planet.

2018: The first alien lifeform, a simple wormlike creature is discovered, gripping the world's imagination.

2022: The first manned mission to Mars begins the longest and most dangerous journey ever undertaken by humankind.

From hundreds of potential candidates, six astronauts from countries around the world are selected to crew the historic mission. Led by Commander Samantha Collins, they must travel across the gulf of interplanetary space, over 150 million miles from home and help. Their mission is to investigate alien life, but what they discover is far beyond what anyone ever imagined...

Review Highlights

"The crew went to Mars to find a small worm, evidence of life outside of earth. What they found was amazing. I love this premise and the uncompromising way it played out for the rest of the book."

"At the very end, there is one description that is so stunning that it left me with a great sadness, but also with a great sense of beauty and hope, and it is what Sun Dragon is, really. Look beyond the words, read the book with your imagination."

"I thoroughly enjoyed this. The level of detail about space flight is astounding and for someone, like me, who has fantasised about being an astronaut since I was a lad it's riveting."